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By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Aug. 17, 2017 Buford Family Seventh-day Adventist Church began around ten years ago as a church plant started by several families who lived in Buford, Georgia and wanted to have a local church presence. I don’t remember seeing another church website which has a list of testimonials on its About page. Some […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs and Tami Cinquemani, Florida Hospital Church Worship Pastor I am continually amazed at the breadth and richness of the stories to be found in our drastically diverse Seventh-day Adventist congregations. This week’s feature comes from the Florida Hospital Church (FHC), where you can attend the 11:30 service in the worship center or […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Aug 3, 2017 Note from the editor: I was delighted to learn about this organization which was formed to explore, encourage, and celebrate arts and creativity inspired by faith. If your church or conference has or knows of another similar organization, please send information to artseditor@atoday.org. Manifest defines itself as “a creative […]

by Jiggs Gallagher, 08/01/2017 Redlands, CA–There are thousands of non-profit institutions set up to help people all over the world. Many of those thousands are providing medical help. This is the story of one Seventh-day Adventist physician’s journey in starting such a group. Larry L. Thomas, MD, DTM&H, graduated from La Sierra University in 1970, spent […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs and several members of the Paw Paw (Michigan) Adventist Church, posted July 20, 2017. Photo: Paw Paw Pathfinders on their way to Pathfinder Fair last May. Used by permission. When Adventist Today Executive Editor Dr. Loren Seibold first sent me a lead saying he’d found a church where “these people […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, July 12, 2017 In 2005, Ron Whitehead, Director of the Center for Youth Evangelism (CYE), Assistant Professor of Youth Ministry at Andrews University, and Director of Youth Ministry for Lake Union Conference, was talking with a group of soon-to-be graduates. They were sharing with him their frustration on the subject of finding […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, with Dr. Mable Dunbar, July 6, 2017 Sometimes when a church prays, they’re not ready for what comes. I have personally seen more than one church pray for new members and then end up chasing away the ones who come, because they are not just like the congregation, and don’t exactly […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 29, 2017 All too often, the conversation around the concepts of liberal vs. conservative Christianity becomes an exercise in finger-pointing. Liberals paint conservatives as more judgmental and less loving, while conservatives claim that liberals are all about cheap grace—“God loves everybody; it doesn’t matter what you do.” This week’s church profiles—really […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 22, 2017 As many readers know, we have been featuring profiles of churches here at Adventist Today; churches which we believe to exemplify the loving communities Jesus had in mind when he sent out his followers to change the world. This story, about the Foster Seventh-day Adventist Church in Asheville, […]

By Allan Martin, June 22, 2017: “It great to know that Jesus is still a draw in 2017,” beamed Pastor Lola Moore Johnston, young adult ministries director for the Adventist denomination’s South Central Conference. “It was refreshing to be in a space with people, young and mature, who were excited to hear and speak about […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 15, 2017 A company called Epic 4D, LLC, is trying to “end biblical illiteracy” by giving away 250,000 video games. The Great Bible Race is a game that was first published in 2011 and first written about here at Adventist Today in 2014. I have included the full text of that […]

By Kofi Adjei, Columbus Ghanaian Church Communications Director, posted June 7, 2017 Editor’s Note: I was present at the Ohio Camp Meeting when a group of (as I remember it) perhaps 30 Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventists, after singing some amazing African songs for us, announced their intention of founding a church just for Ghanaians in Columbus, […]

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